ingestion
noun/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin ingestionem, accusative of ingestio (“a pouring in”), action noun of the perfect passive participle of ingerere (“pour in”), from in- (“in, into”) + gero (“to carry, to bear”).
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The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
2
Broadly The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
3
Any intake of a substance into an organism.
- The common modes of ingestion in forensic settings are oral ingestion, injection, and smoking2022, Suzanne Bell, Forensic Chemistry, page 339:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Intake of data into a computer system.
- Ingestion is the first step of your big data pipeline. You will have to onboard the data in your instance of Spark, whether it is in local mode or cluster mode.2020, Jean-Georges Perrin, Rob Thomas, Spark in Action, Second edition, Shelter Island: Manning, →ISBN:
- Antonyms
- egestion
- Derived terms
- avian ingestion, bird ingestion, coingestion, ingestional, postingestion, preingestion, reingestion